ILLINOIS
Southtown Star
Some evil is simply wrong. Sometimes it’s also illegal.
The law is not mysterious. The law usually says what it means.
Thus we are perplexed how a massive spiritual entity such as the 15,000-member First Baptist Church of Hammond did not know that adults taking children across state lines for sex was a crime. It’s been a crime for more than a century.
When the leadership of the church fired pastor-in-chief the Rev. Jack Schaap last summer for that activity and turned his case over to police, they seemed puzzled about the law. At his sentencing, Schaap also expressed surprise that what he did was a crime.
They all know better now, but what gap in their civic education led them to miss the crime? Willful naiveté? Deliberate ignorance?
So Schaap is now sentenced to 10 years in prison after admitting the crime and taking a deal. It’s a gift to him. He could have gotten life
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